Charging developers an additional fee would hurt the county’s marginalized and lower-income residents most and benefit those who already have homes, said Jen Klose, executive director of the advocacy group Generation Housing.
“Slowing development through raising cost barriers is making a choice to maintain the status quo, which is one population, primarily whites, continue to be safely, stably and affordably housed and another population, primarily our communities of color, continue to suffer myriad impacts of housing-cost burden instability,” Klose said.
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